CR4 Insight: Post Stats

But wait, there's more: Your most active member, 'lyn,' posts at a rate of fifty-three times the average rate of your 2000 most-prolific members, computed as the total number of posts made by this group divided by the total time all have been members. These figures do not take into account members whom are shown as still being members but whom are no longer active. Many of your early and more prolific members have not posted in several years, skewing these results somewhat (member 'lyn's post-rate/member-day would be somewhat higher consequently). Of your roughly 70,000 members your 100 most prolific members account for fully half of all posts made to this forum, ie, 0.14% of your membership account for nearly 50% of all traffic. 75% of all posts to this forum were posted by 0.71% of your membership. Again, these results do not take into account the time your inactive members have been inactive.

Night Owl

It's a general law, just like economics. The top 1% does/gets as much as the bottom 99% of whatever it is....

Fifteen minutes of (statistical-analysis, in this case) fame? lol -Andy Warhol

For this site the disparity is actually bit greater than the norm: the top 1/700 does/gets as much as the bottom 699/700 of whatever it is, but generally speaking you're quite correct.

Maybe you were thinking of Sturgeon's Revelation (sometimes mistakenly called Sturgeon's Law): "Ninety percent of everything is crap."

_{Sturgeon's Law is: Nothing is always absolutely so.}

_{[-Both sayings are from Theodore Sturgeon, science fiction writer]}

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Seems JRaef and AH are not here for talking! :-)

Less than 10000 posts but in the high GA ranks!

Congrats all.

I agree. Its the subject matter expert.

If there was a catagory for this for GA, it's my opinion that Abdel Halim Galala takes this hands down.

He is one of the most helpful people on a social web site that I know.

Thanks for the honorable mention but I think most of my GA's come from the giggle factor more than anything else.

Personally I rarely ever use the GA or OT buttons unless it's to undo obvious troll votes.

Excellent, thoughtful reply. GA

Congratulations to all our friends and to CR4 Forum. Butttttttttttttt we need to improve the forum by making some positive changes which are overdue.

There was a lot changes recently. What else do you suggest? One thing for sure, we are not going to change the people here. Whats in your mind???

Here are my suggestions sent to Admin. in past:-

1. Popularise CR4 by sending broadcast e-mails to industries through your directory of various industries.

2. Explain in e-mail the objective of CR4.

3. Inform engineers that they can avail of free problem solving replies from the professionals all around the world.

4. Best thing will be all posts are edited by the experienced engineer before they are published in CR4, this includes replies also.

5. There should be a section where engineers can give their opinions about performance of particular brand of equipments including the star ratings.

I hope my suggestions will help you in redesigning CR4 Forum.

Hi Yahlasit,

Thanks for your comments, can I reply as under:-

1.Past few months there were very few participants in CR4. That is why I suggested for popularising the forum.

2.There were ugly comments about some very primitive questions from students which were labelled as "home work" questions and there were nasty replies from Gurus. That required initial editing of the post.

3.About experience from our members regarding different brands, it was just suggestion which could have helped fellow members.

I hope now you will appreciate my views.

I can analyze that data for a future post if there's interest.

And I'm glad to hear you'll be spending more time on CR4!

You need only two persons to vote for you to get G.A. Suppose three friends gang up and have understanding to vote each other in set of two, they can score good numbers of G.As. It will be wiser if some one from CR4 decides to give G.As then it is realy worth.

It would be easier and more revealing if the 'Rate' menu listed who had voted a post as either GA or OT.

Then the GA is taken too seriously.

The members that posted a GA that was truely a GA can take comfort that they assisted..... IMO.

But the ones that are concerned about GA counts...... well, I don't have an answer for that.

Eventhough sometimes we join our opinions with someone out of simpathy, we are not gangsters that agree to behave dishonestly against or in favour of no one here.

Some one from CR4 evaluating all posts ? Are you serious ? Even if he was very wise, the rating of all posts would be subject to his own judge and mood. A good answer is a good answer for the majority of the voters and it will be rated as such, in spite of the eventual troll.

Back in CR4's first incarnation, when there were only around 100 or so members (and before we got the user number issued on this version), there was a rating system in place which was audited by the members.

The Admins/site computer picked members who had posted a certain number of times in a week and then offered them the chance to agree or disagree with the rankings given to 10 posts. We had three rating options: Useful, Worthless and Funny (can't remember what they were actually called, but it boiled down to those). The Auditor was asked if they agreed or not.

I found some really interesting posts and threads that way (you were only asked to audit posts on threads to which you hadn't posted) and met people like KenFry and AH in the process.

The current voting system is self-regulating...if you don't agree with a ranking, you can vote against it.

I would like to see a three option vote though: GA, OT, and Amusing.

[Is Savvy yawning? Ah well, she's heard this a few times before ]

I like your attitude and also your GA/post ratio.

Just added another one for all to see!

This does not actually reflects the real contribution of many members in this forum.

♦ Many GAs are not real GAs at all. Some are wrong and some are just funny. I still believe that the "number" of GAs of the members doesn't really show how much helpful they really are. (Of course, I don't underestimate the 7 top GA members who are much active and helpful too.) The members' quality and contribution cannot be measured with an absolute "GA number".

♦ Many people have presented interesting threads in CR4 (and some others have asked very interesting questions), giving 'food for thought' for many interesting discussions and arising interesting ideas through them. Do they deserve some credits too??? So, I think that -beside the GA- we should, also, introduce the GT (good topic) or even GQ (good question).

Of course, I know that all these are "quality issues". And I know that quality is not easily measurable.

These are good points. Validity and meaning of GA votes is often discussed. Your second point, giving credit to those who star out with a good thought, is another factor. The thread rating feature is not widely used.

That being said, this post was just for fun.

It would be easier to see a breakdown in GA's instead of adding more catagories to it.

i mean where the GA's are earnt , Instead of GA, GT (good troll ) GQ, GJ (good Joke), GHQ (Good Homework Question), GS (Good strawman) etcetera.

What about a withdrawable vote? You would be able to cancel your vote for a GA (not someone else's). See what happens in longer threads.

I believe that you can withdraw your vote. If you voted GA for a thread and you go back and vote OT instead the GA and OT cancel out each other. You only have one vote!

Check it out and read the fine print when voting.

FANTASTIC COVERAGE and ANALYSIS.

PERSONAL comments should not be allowed and must be removed then and there.

In the past few days, some comments are appearing like a personal attack, I raised this issue on 5 different occasions. Two days back, I raised (to Anonymous Poster) "WHAT MADE YOU TO GET PROVOCATED and we SHOULD NOT OFFEND ANY MEMBER.......?, by our adverse comment.

The High Standards of CR4 to be maintained and further improved, and HAND OVER to NEXT GENERATION(S) .

After all the KNOWLEDGE should be propagated and spread in all directions by LEAPS and BOUNDS, thus we contribute MORE to the Society, what we have we have taken/enjoyed a share, from the Society.

Monitors/Moderators can think on this issue.

DHAYANANDHAN.S